Temptation (The Tea Party song)

"Temptation"
"Temptation"
	Commercial CD Single, Australia
Single by The Tea Party
from the album Transmission
A-side	"Temptation", "Pulse"
B-side	"The River (Alhambra Tour)"
Released	July 1997
Recorded	Alkemical Studios (Montreal), Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
Genre	Industrial rock
Length	2:55
Label	EMI Music Canada
Songwriter(s)	The Tea Party
Producer(s)	Jeff Martin
The Tea Party singles chronology

"Temptation" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tea Party from the album Transmission. It was released as a single in Australia and a promotional single in Canada and the United States.^[1] The music video was shot in Toronto.

"Temptation" is a standard three-piece rock song with keyboard accompaniment and an introduction composed of tar (lute) and a sped-up sample of Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks".

The song ranked #5 on CILQ-FM's Top 107 songs of 1997.^[2]

Trivia

An instrumental of this song was used in Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.
Also, this song was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Road Rash 3D.
Additionally, this song was a track on the EA Sports NHL 2002 video game soundtrack.
The song is covered by Nevermore and released as bonus song on their album The Obsidian Conspiracy
This song is The Tea Party's only US Chart entry (US Billboard Active Rock Chart #36 ^[3]).

Track listing

"Temptation"
"The River (Alhambra Tour)"
"Pulse"

Charts

Chart performance for "Temptation"
Chart (1997)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)^[4]	57

References

^ transmission era The Tea Party a visual discography Accessed 18 April 2007 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Top 107 of 1997". Archived from the original on 1998-01-19. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
^ "The Tea Party Chart History | Billboard". www.billboard.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 276.